» Purchase Wii Points through the Wii Shop Channel in any Country
The Wii Shop Channel is a Wii Channel that lets a player buy and download content directly from Nintendo.
» Change Windows Network Configuration from the Command Line
Do you frequently find yourself switching between different IP addresses in your Windows laptop when plugging onto different networks?
This is quite common for field engineers who need to connect to various customer networks. It is quite frustrating to click a dozen times before you can make a single IP address change.
» Symbolic Link Exploit with Temporary Files Created in Shell Scripts
Many coders do not think that creating temporary files in a secure way is important, especially in shell scripts. It’s just a temporary file, they might say. But a simple symbolic link exploit could make the whole system unusable.
» Search for Files Bigger Than Certain Size
When the disk partition is filling up quickly, it’s quite an hassle for the system administrator to find out the location of the files taking up the most space.
» User Agent Spoofing with Firefox
The User Agent, well the HTTP User Agent, is a string of data identifying the browser, browser version, the underlying Operating System and contains other miscellaneous information.
» Access Root Shell in Ubuntu
On a typical Fedora installation, you are asked for a root password and you will given an option to create accounts for normal users.
On the other hand, Ubuntu only allows account creation for normal users, root logins are disabled by default.
» Java Singleton Design Pattern
The Singleton Pattern is one of the most commonly used design patterns in Java. This design pattern is used to restrict the instantiation of a class to a single object.
» Run Your Own CGI Proxy
A CGI proxy is a HTTP/FTP proxy that allows a user to access a different site through it. It is most commonly used when a user is not able to access the site directly or just that the user wants to access the site anonymously.
» Enable Windows NTLM Authentication in Firefox
Windows NTLM (NT Lan Manager) is a Microsoft authentication protocol used with the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol.
A lot of the protocol was reverse engineered by the Samba team – the people behind the Samba server that allow UNIX machines to share files and printers with a Windows client.
» Reset MySQL root Password
If you have set a root password for MySQL previously, but have forgotten what it was, you can reset the password without much hassle.
